Perfsys

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Foounder of Roligt AB

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Creating web based system for digital signage.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Perfsys to accomplish?

• Create a platform for administration of content and media players

SOLUTION

How did you find Perfsys?

Online Search

Why did you select Perfsys over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Perfsys were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Develop a web-based system for managing content for digital signage and communicating with and updating media players, including fetching and processing data from external sources. 
Overview Structure: The system should be capable of hosting multiple clients in separate instances, with several users per client. A client can upload materials such as videos and images and link them to specific dates and media players. Some content will be fetched from external databases. 

1. Media Players: The administrator creates media players and integrates them with the system. The task involves building an API solution based on the requirements of the media players. The media players will continuously query the server for available settings, playlists, and video clips. 
2. Material Management: Develop a solution where clients can upload materials in the form of images and videos and create sequences with these files in the browser. On the server side, the sequences will be transposed into video clips in a specific format. 
3. Material Storage: Implement features for uploading and storing materials that clients can retrieve to create material as described in point 2. 
4. Content Planning and Scheduling: Build functionality for adding materials and publishing settings. It should be possible to create different playlists, group content, and sort content locally for each media player and globally for multiple media players. 
5. Retrieval of Data from External Databases: Retrieve video materials, publishing settings, and information on where the content should be displayed from clients' booking systems. Automate the process of creating and publishing incoming content. 
6. Data Retrieval for Scheduling: Based on clients' schedules, retrieve data and automatically publish content according to the schedule. For example, "Show ad X when ferry Y departs from port M."

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We now have system that runs 24/7 and are used on daily bases. And our monthly cost have been lower then every because of the server less solution we selected togheter with PrefSys. In general we now have a stabile solution that we can trust.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

During the main project we hade weekly calls together with the project ledare and head developer. Between the weekly meetings we communicated in our project management system. They always answering directly and solving the issues fast.

What was your primary form of communication with Perfsys?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The knowledge they had about working with serverless solutions from AWS was impressive and together with fast developing and quick respons in communication make them to a prefect partner.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Perfsys could have done differently?

Not directly.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am part of the engineering team for a startup engineering firm with a development presence in the UK providing a niche B2B software solution and we are building out web services to support licensing and provide customer management tools.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Perfsys?

We had developed a customer dashboard web app for our new business, which needed a deployment pipeline.

What were your goals for this project?

We needed someone to take on the responsibility of provisioning AWS resources, finishing up a CI /CD workflow, and clearly documenting the setup of web app while following current industry best practices.

SOLUTION

How did you select Perfsys?

We approached a number of individuals and teams and interviewed a selection to identify someone that would be able to both meet the goals and fit in with our team generally.

After a couple of initial calls, we selected to work with Perfsys based on their approachability and domain experience.

Describe the project in detail.

Once we selected Perfsys, they were eager to engage and deep-dive on our needs as a startup.

We worked closely with a project owner to scope out the deliverables - with recommendations on technology and strategy - early on in the project, and milestones were rapidly marked off by both the project owner and his team.

What was the team composition?

Our main interactions were through a single point of contact, though there were named contributions from another developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The project was completed easily within the expected time-frame, allowing our internal engineering resources to focus on core business decisions while the cloud deployment was taken care of by Perfsys.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The workflow was tightly integrated with how we like to operate. Everything was communicated through Slack, with regular updates. Code commits, and build status updates set up to automatically notify the engineering team of progress.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I was very impressed with the communication and willingness to teach and transfer knowledge so that we were left in a great place to continue maintenance in the future.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None at all!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Ingmar Bornholz, my-vpa Gmbh, CEO and Co-founder of germanies largest provider of virtual assistant services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Perfsys?

We've hired Perfsys team in 2017 to help us migrate our production environment to AWS, including CI/CD configurations, cluster monitoring. Setup and configure SSO solution based on Keycloak Identity provider. Later we asked Perfsys team to migrate Test environment to AWS as well Also Perfsys team did AWS Cloud solution for AWS Connect.

What were your goals for this project?

Migration to AWS cloud, setup Production and Staging environments. Get support through our journey as my-vpa business. Setup SSO for our applications like Webapp, Owncloud, AWS Connect

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

From Upwork and other references

Describe the project in detail.

Execute migration from private cloud to AWS. Deploy, setup and configure Kubernetes cluster on AWS. Setup monitoring and CI/CD pipelines. Maintain updates and deployments.

Architect and implement a custom SSO solution based on Keycloak that would federate users to our internet MySQL database. Help us on a daily basis with updates and mobile app development. Design and develop a system for Call Center in the Cloud, implement custom voice mail solution using AWS Connect.

What was the team composition?

1 Devops engineer, 1 Project Manager, 1 AWS Developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have our web app running in AWS cloud available with a link https://http://app.my-vpa.com/. SSO solution is available with a link https://kc.my-vpa.com

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Having the same idea of how to approach projects in an agile way, the communication and workflow was outstanding from the beginning.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They are proactive and have creative ideas on how to approach the very unique set we have in our company. Almost always finding professional thus effective solutions.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Would be good to move even closer together :)

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Founder and CEO of Audience Genomics... Moneyball for Content. We deliver data to support content creation and distribution decisions which, up until now, were made purely by gut. Our data is tailored to help storytellers to understand the interests, attributes and values their target audience responds to.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Perfsys?

We hired Perfsys to develop a complex Extract Transform and Load project

What were your goals for this project?

Our goal was to be able to dynamically assign descriptions, labels and categories to people places and things.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Perfsys came highly recommended by an existing client.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Perfsys built a serverless architecture system that allows us to quickly and cost-effectively search terabytes of data, find the relevant record, extract the relevant values from the record and append the information to our database. They also built a front end user permissioning system.

What was the team composition?

The team consisted of two dedicated developers and the company's principal who provided hands-on strategic direction.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

The work that Perfsys delivered replaces manually work that would have previously taken hundreds of man-hours. We now have a system that can scale and handle any demand in just minutes.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We worked in two week sprints, communicated multiple times a day over Slack and the team was available to join us for phone calls and/or videoconferencing with screen shares whenever it was needed. The project management was highly effective.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

What was most impressive was their strategic thinking. The team was far from one that just followed direction blindly. They truly took ownership over the project and they gave it the same level of thoughtfulness, care and attention to detail as if it were their own software.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There is very little I would recommend as areas for improvement.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of Intro, Inc.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Perfsys?

We hired Perfsys to create a serverless website and a CodePipeline for building and deploying sources. 

What were your goals for this project?

 The goal was a cloud-based website that met our requirements. 

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We selected them based on recommendations from our partners.

Describe the project in detail.

They built the website using AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront. The project also required experience in Python, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda. 

What was the team composition?

They provided one full-time Python developer, one full-time Javascript frontend developer, and one development operations manager. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

I trust them. I can go to bed at night and know that I will not wake up in the morning to a user complaint about website or login errors, something I experienced on a weekly basis with my previous agency. I have a very high level of confidence with Perfsys. Their maintenance package includes built-in alerts, none of which have been triggered yet. If something were to go wrong on the Perfsys side, I am confident they will know about it and resolve it before I hear of it from a user. 

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Their development workflow was based on the Agile/SCRUM approach. We had daily sync calls as well as weekly planning meetings.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Although we may suggest an idea, they will always keep us straight on industry best practices. The maintenance package I pay now is less than the retainer I for the previous agency, who regularly complained that the retainer was not enough to cover the number of hours they worked each month.  

Are there any areas for improvement?

They need to be more proactive in creating bespoke elements on the website and in suggesting better enhancements.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I was the CTO of a company that was building applications focused on healthcare integration.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Perfsys?

We hired them for full-stack application development.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to develop a scalable and configurable product that could be deployed to a customer site or hosted in our datacenter.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We used an internal rating process in which we choose three vendors and have a formula with which we weigh their strengths and weaknesses. We do this in numerous ways, but mainly through interviews and open-source research.

Can you go into detail about the services they provided and the scope of the project?

Perfsys provided full-stack development using technologies such as Node.js, Docker, NoSQL, Hadoop, and Ext JS.

What was the team composition?

The team scaled from three to five people depending on the amount of work for a specific time frame. They also provided development and architecture support.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

We successfully built and deployed the product to production environments, and were able to gain business from the scalability and ease of configuration that the solution offers.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project was managed by an internal project manager. We used Google Hangouts, Mind Maps, and internal sprint management tools.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their ability to meet a deadline and implement complex solutions with little rework is remarkable.

Are there any areas where they can improve?

None that I can remember.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of a financial services company.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We provide FX services to corporates and private clients

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Perfsys to accomplish?

• Improve security on AWS

SOLUTION

How did you find Perfsys?

Referral

Why did you select Perfsys over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Perfsys were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Perfys performed a security review of our AWS cloud configuration and provided us with a set of recommendations for improvement and helped us implement them

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We were able to improve our cloud security posture and a number of issues were raised that we solved

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The team was very methodical and delivered within their set timelines. The process was very well organised

What was your primary form of communication with Perfsys?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The efficiency and expertise they demonstrated

Are there any areas for improvement or something Perfsys could have done differently?

No areas for improvement

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

 I am the CEO of a Software Development Company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Software Development

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Perfsys to accomplish?

• create and improve cloud infrastructure

SOLUTION

How did you find Perfsys?

Referral

Why did you select Perfsys over others?

• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Perfsys were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Plan, create and maintain cloud environment

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Working stable production & other environments

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

On time

What was your primary form of communication with Perfsys?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were very responsive and devoted to their work.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Perfsys could have done differently?

Not really

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Data Management at an energy company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Energy retailer

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Perfsys to accomplish?

• Implement Customized Instance of KeyCloak
• Have it integrated to our EKS infrastructure

SOLUTION

How did you find Perfsys?

Other

Why did you select Perfsys over others?

• High ratings
• Other

What was the size of Perfsys’s team?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Deploy, setup and configure Kubernetes cluster on AWS. Design and Implement custom features accordingly to Business Requirements. Maintain updates and deployments.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Delivery of backlog items
• Successfully met acceptance criteria

What was your primary form of communication with Perfsys?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Perfsys team was always very responsive and easy to reach. They always came up with suggestions to address our requirements and proved capacity of working easily with latest cloud technologies (Kubernetes, Terraform, etc).

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Perfsys has a perfect blend of technical expertise and creative flair. This is a serious and very reliable team.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Perfsys could have done differently?

N/A